Great Roads: Motorcycle Riding in Montana
SHERRY JONES AND TODD MOWBRAY
June 7, 2013
Yellowstone National Park, on the south end of Montana, is a veritable three-ring safari and special-effects razzle-dazzle where, no matter what you’re taking in, there’s something else you’re missing. Glacier National Park, on the north end of Montana, is the same way. A bevy of bison graze near... Read more »
4 Corners 4 Kids: Traveling to the Four Corners of the U.S. For Charity
Laura Melvin
June 5, 2013
I have made some road trips in my nine years of riding, but I’ve never managed to stay gone long enough to want the trip to end. I’m 64 years old and have begun to age like my dog—seven years on the body for one year on the calendar. So I began to think about a long trip before my body declared... Read more »
Crisscrossing the Lower Colorado River–Hoover Dam to the Oxbow Bridge
Clement Salvadori
February 4, 2013
For more than 35 years, a contingent of aging Yuppies that includes Yours Truly has been convening at Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley in late winter. Now, after three nights of carousing, retelling oft-told tales and ignoring realities, the DV weekend was over. I cranked up the Honda Gold Wing GL1800... Read more »
New Great Roads Website Now Available
Rider Magazine Staff
January 8, 2013
Rider magazine has recently launched a new Great Roads section on its website that focuses on local and international motorcycle rides, roads and travel experiences from the editors of Rider magazine and our contributors. The articles have been broken down by region to help you find stories about a... Read more »
Southern Utah Splendor
Michael S. Brown
January 3, 2013
For three decades, my buddy Ted and I have taken long rides from our homes near Portland, Oregon. Years ago, we exhausted all the scenic roads within a day’s ride, so we bought a Kendon Stand-Up trailer in order to get our 60-year-old selves and Suzuki V-Strom 650s farther afield with enough energy... Read more »
Southwest Touring Ride on a 2013 Victory Vision Tour
Greg Drevenstedt
December 6, 2012
“Last minute…but epic!” The attention-getting email was from Manny Pandya, the younger of the Amazing Pandya Brothers, two quick-witted gearheads who handle press relations for Victory Motorcycles. Manny was recruiting a small band of misfits for the Strip to Chip Tour, a floorboard-scraping,... Read more »
Gorgeous Columbia: Seattle to the Columbia River Gorge and Back
Phil Buonpastore
December 4, 2012
When it comes to unspoiled natural beauty, the Columbia River Gorge ranks as one of the most stunning places on earth. While that may sound like an overly hyped statement in an overly hyped world, in this case it happens to be true. Few places combine as many elements of beautiful geography and topography—mountains,... Read more »
The Long Way to Monterey and Morro Bay, California
Tom Culbertson
October 9, 2012
It’s 6 a.m. on a Wednesday as I head out of Port Hueneme, California, north to Monterey—the long way! There are so many fantastic back roads through this remote and pristine Central-Coast countryside that every trip is a unique and rewarding adventure. Today, riding my BMW R 1100 R, I catch Highway... Read more »
Cloverleaf Around Yakima, Washington
Alan Paulsen
September 11, 2012
When I last visited my friends Brian and Pam Rafferty in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to develop an article (Connecting the Dakotas, Rider, August 2009), they weren’t of a mind to leave one of America’s most livable cities. Well, the economic travails of the times dictated that they pull up stakes... Read more »
Alaska Roadhouse Run: The Valdez to Fairbanks Trail
Dennis Bible
July 6, 2012
(This story was published in the July 2012 issue of Rider magazine.) Story and photos by Dennis Bible When gold was discovered in the 1890s in the Klondike and later in Fairbanks, one of the fastest ways for prospectors to get to the gold fields was a steamship ride from San Francisco or Seattle to Valdez,... Read more »
